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Robert Thornton and his Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts (Manuscript Culture in the British Isles, 5) by Susanna Fein; Michael Johnston; Dav Smith; George R. Keiser; Joel Fredell; Julie Nelson Couch; Julie Orlemanski; Mary Michele Poellinger; Ralph Hanna; Rosalind Field; Thorlac Turville-Petre is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections.The Yorkshire landowner Robert Thornton (c.1397- c.1465) copied the contents of two important manuscripts, Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91 (the'Lincoln manuscript'), and London, British Library, MS Additional 31042 (the'London manuscript') in the middle decades of the fifteenth century. Viewed in combination, his books comprise a rare repository of varied English and Latin literary, religious and medical texts that survived the dissolution of the monasteries, when so many other medieval books were destroyed. Residing in the texts he copied and used are many indicators of what this gentleman scribe of the North Riding read, how he practised his religion, and what worldly values he held for himself and his family. Because of the extraordinary nature of his collected texts - Middle English romances, alliterative verse (the alliterative Morte Arthure only exists here), lyrics and treatises of religion ormedicine - editors and scholars have long been deeply interested in uncovering Thornton's habits as a private, amateur scribe. The essays collected here provide,
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- Author
- Susanna Fein; Michael Johnston; Dav Smith; George R. Keiser; Joel Fredell; Julie Nelson Couch; Julie Orlemanski; Mary Michele Poellinger; Ralph Hanna; Rosalind Field; Thorlac Turville-Petre
- Publisher
- York Medieval Press ; in association with the Boydell Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781782042730
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, History, Literary Criticism
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